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$36 Million in Adult Services Revenue


It’s articles like this that make us all wonder if we should have just started an adult dating site. At the end of the day most of us don’t because well, we have this concern about this thing called Karma! Anyways, for your reading pleasure it appears as though Craigslist is making great money, try 80% of their revenue is profit and a good chunk of it comes from “Adult Services”!!!!!

More than half of that revenue comes from recruitment advertising, but 30% of it comes from Craigslist’s adult services ads. By the AIM Group’s estimation, Craigslist’s adult services — formerly known as “erotic services” — will funnel in more than $36 million in revenue for 2010.

The Classified Intelligence Report also finds that Craigslist stands to take home anywhere from $88 to $99 million in profit, which means the company could see nearly 80% of revenue as profits. Plus, AIM Group founder Peter M. Zollman purports that, “Per employee, it generates more than $4 million in revenue and profits of $2.9 million to $3.2 million.”

To read the entire articles please visit Mashable.com

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